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HSLS Staff NewsDaniel Higgins has transferred to the Falk Library Circulation Department, where he works at the Circulation Desk and processes new books. Previously Higgins worked at the University’s UPMC Shadyside’s Hopwood Library: A Health Resource Center for Patients and Families received second place at the 2005 Medical Library Association Public Relations Swap and Shop Exhibit in San Antonio, Texas. The award recognized library staff for creating an innovative event promoting medical libraries and librarians. Hopwood Library: A Health Resource Center for Patients and Families, and Michelle Burda, HSLS consumer health librarian, were featured in an article “Patients Find Answers at the Hopwood Library,” in the Western Pennsylvania Hospital News, 19 (9), August 2005. Pat Weiss, reference librarian, has been appointed technology co-editor of MLA News, a publication of the Medical Library Association. PRESENTATIONS Yi-Bu Chen, assistant information specialist in Molecular Biology and Genetics, presented “A One-stop Gateway to Online Bioinformatics Databases and Software Tools” on July 12-13, 2005 at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Annual Informatics Training Conference, NIH Campus, Bethesda, Md. The conference, a showcase of NLM trainees’ activities and accomplishments, was attended by more than 600 people from biomedical informatics training programs from some of the nation’s top universities. PUBLICATIONS Jonathon Erlen, history of medicinelibrarian, published “Review of Civil War Pharmacy: A History of Drugs, Drug Supply and Provision, and Therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy” in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 102(3): 417-419, 2005; “Recent dissertations in the history of medicine” in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 60(3): 355-361, 2005; “Research on the history of psychiatry: Dissertation Abstracts, 2004” in History of Psychiatry, 16(3): 377-392, 2005; and “Dissertation list,” History of Science Society Newsletter, 35 (2): 21, 2005, and 35(3): 9, 2005. His review of Heal Thyself: Nicholas Culpeper and the Seventeenth Century Struggle to Bring Medicine to the People by Benjamin Woolley appeared in Pharmacy in History, 47(1): 35-36, 2005. Erlen also served as a contributor to the online Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) 2001 bibliography Relations of Science to Literature and the Arts <www.litsci.org>, and as a contributor to ISIS Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 2004, Toronto: York University, 2005. |
